" The official said that Russian diplomats sent an official message to the
US ordering American planes out of Syria, adding that Russian fighter
jets were now flying over Syrian territory, according to the report.

US military sources told the news outlet that US planes would not comply with the Russian demand.

"There is nothing to indicate that we are changing operations over Syria," a senior defense official told Fox. "

"Israeli responses to Syrian fighting bleeding into the Golan Heights will
likely not change, despite Russia’s recent decision to take a more
active role in the civil war there, a former ambassador to Moscow said
Tuesday."

Jerusalem Post:Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
vowed to prevent Jews from “defiling Al-Aksa Mosque with their filthy
feet.” Was there no-nonsense condemnation of such incitement from the
UN? Not a hint thereof. The UN never ceases to blow our minds although the organization’s barefaced bias shouldn’t surprise any reasonable Israeli...

...The UN Security Council for instance managed in one outlandish
statement to ignore the in-your-face aggression by Muslims on the Temple
Mount while inter alia also expunging all trace of Jewish links to
Judaism’s holiest site. It was a fantastic feat of obliterating the truth and propping up the lie.
To begin with, there was no mention of the term Temple Mount, thus in
effect wiping out 3,000 years of Jewish history (to say nothing of the
derivative Christian historiography). All that was mentioned was the subsequent superimposed Arabic Haram al-Sharif (Noble Compound). Repeatedly, that was the one and only appellation used for the site...

...The subtext is clear – Muslim rights “to worship in peace” are being
violated and the villain of the piece is Israel. Moreover, the evidence
in plain sight of Muslims turning Al-Aksa Mosque into an arsenal of
rocks and other projectiles, as well as hoarding pipe bombs and
incendiary devices there, is studiously ignored. Why would “peaceful worshipers” stockpile weaponry and in a holy site at that? The intent is surely nothing if not belligerent.
Predictably, this goes apparently unnoticed at the Security Council,
where fanatical hostility is defined as Muslim “freedom of worship.”

PMW:In a cartoon published on the website of
Fatah's Information and Culture Commission, Israel is portrayed as an
Islamic State executioner dressed in black with a Star of David on his
hood and the text “Judaization” across his robe. The executioner is
swinging an axe, about to decapitate a Palestinian whose head is the
Dome of the Rock. The Palestinian is resting his head on a sleeping
chopping block labelled “the international disregard.” [Website of
Fatah's Information and Culture Commission, Sept. 19, 2015]

Fatah spokesman: "Go to the areas of conflict
in order to 'explode' in front of the occupier and its assistants"

Mahmoud Abbas: "We will not sit idly by
in the face of these attacks"

Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor Sultan Abu Al-Einein
"concluded with a call to Fatah movement members...
[to] carry out widespread public uprisings,
in order to make the enemy pay a price for its actions
'because the hand that will be raised
against the Al-Aqsa [Mosque] will be amputated.'"

Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman: "East Jerusalem and the places
holy to Islam and Christianity are a red line,
and we will not sit idly by"

“[Israeli
Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli extreme right are
acting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, not only to divide it by times and
areas... They want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the alleged
Temple on the ruins of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

[Official PA TV, Sept. 15, 2015]

“The most
important thing in Jerusalem is the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is being subjected to Judaization
and division by times and areas, and moreover to destruction in order to
build the alleged Temple.”

[Official PA TV, Sept. 14, 2015]

Yesterday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas described Jews on the Temple Mount as "filth":

"The
Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is ours... and they have no right to defile it with
their filthy feet. We will not allow them to, and we will do everything
in our power to protect Jerusalem."

In
his speech, parts of which were broadcast on official PA TV and posted
on his personal website, Abbas also glorified Palestinians fighting
against Israel in Jerusalem who are killed in the fighting. Abbas
promised that Allah will reward those who "will not allow" Jews to
"defile" Jerusalem:

"We
bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem, which is
clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah, Allah willing. Every
Martyr (Shahid) will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah."

In the past 12 months the lives of thousands of Israelis have
been threatened by Palestinian terror. Driving your car, taking the bus,
or simply walking around- daily routine has become dangerous to
Israelis. Here is a recap of all the main terrorist attacks against
Israelis in the last year.

“It is scandalous that the UN chose a country that has beheaded more
people this year than ISIS to be head of a key human rights panel,”
said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer. “Petro-dollars and
politics have trumped human rights.”“Saudi Arabia has arguably the worst record in the world when it
comes to religious freedom and women’s rights, and continues to imprison
the innocent blogger Raif Badawi,” Neuer added.

By
subjugating women, trampling religious freedom, oppressing minorities,
and imprisoning innocent human rights activist and blogger Raif Badawi,
Saudi Arabia demonstrates why the U.N. should NEVER have elected this
oppressive regime to its Human Rights Council.

And it should never have placed Saudi Arabia at the head of the
committee that selects UN human rights experts. For Saudi Arabia to
decide who will be an investigator on violence against women
or arbitrary detention is like asking the foxes to guard the chickens.Article 8 of the council's founding resolution provides that member
states can be removed for gross and systematic violations of human
rights. More than ever, it's time to finally remove Saudi Arabia.

" On the one hand, the rocket fire on Sderot and Ashkelon
bares witness to the fact that Hamas's control over the Gaza Strip has
weakened. On the other hand, Israel's response shows that Jerusalem's
practical options are limited.

Since the end of Operation
Protective Edge some 13 months ago, 14 rockets and mortar shells have
been fired at Israel by the Islamic Jihad and small Salafi terror
groups, some of which identify with Islamic State. Five of the attacks,
including those on Friday, occurred in the past month-and-a-half. There
were a few other rockets that failed and fell within Gaza territory.
This is the smallest number of rockets fired from Gaza at Israel in any
of the periods between the three Gaza operations that have been waged
since 2008 (Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense and Protective Edge)...

... In Israel, the estimate is that Salafi organizations carried out both
attacks, despite the fact that no organization claimed responsibility
for the rocket fired at Sderot. The Salafi organization, the 'Sheikh
Omar Hadid Brigades,' which identifies with Islamic State, claimed
responsibility on its Twitter account for the rocket fired at Ashkelon.

The
rocket fired at Ashkelon was a Grad (an advanced Katyusha), showing
that the small organization has improved its operational capabilities.
Another conclusion is that the Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigades and similar
Salafist organizations, which are multiplying in Gaza, are not afraid to
challenge Hamas's rule. And this is despite the harsh response from
Hamas, which does not hesitate to arrest operatives of these
organizations and in some cases to assassinate them. The boldness of the
Salafi groups actions and their increased strength and presence is a
bad sign for Hamas - but also a bad sign for Israel..."

In an address delivered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad
Ayed said that the European countries are not motivated by compassion
toward the refugees, but by their need for labor. "We shall conquer
their countries," he declared in the address, which was posted on the
internet on September 11, 2015.

Sheikh Muhammad Ayed: "(The infidels) want us to be tormented.
They want us to be humiliated. (The Quran) says: Tthe Jews and the
Christians will never be pleased with you,' but we will never follow
their religion. This dark night will be over, and soon, we will trample
them underfoot, Allah willing. Germany is not a compassionate country
that wishes to absorb refugees from Syria and Iraq, and Palestinian
refugees in the Levant and elsewhere. Europe has become old and
decrepit, and needs human reinforcement. No force is more powerful than
the human force of us Muslims. Oh Muslims, the Germans say, in their
economic reports, that they need 50,000 young workers. Now, they have
got 20,000, and they want another 30,000 and more, to work in their
factories. They are not motivated by compassion for the Levant, its
people, and its refugees. Throughout Europe, all the hearts are infused
with hatred toward Muslims. They wish that we were dead. But they have
lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in their midst. We will
give them fertility! We will breed children with them, because we shall
conquer their countries – whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh
Americans, oh French, oh Italians, and all those like you. Take the
refugees! We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming
Caliphate. We will say to you: These are our sons. Send them, or we will
send our armies to you."

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor reacted on Friday morning to
the UN Security Council’s statement concerning the escalating tensions
on in Jerusalem saying that “When the Palestinians set the Temple Mount
ablaze, Mahmoud Abbas fuels the fire, and the Security Council fans the
flames, it is a recipe for a regional explosion...

..This statement, which only uses the Arabic name for the Temple Mount,
affirms the right of Muslims to be present an to pray at the compound,
but completely ignores the Palestinian violence, the deep connection of
the Jewish People to the Temple Mount, and the right of all to visit the
site,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor responded.”

" A number of Palestinian youths are suspected in an arson attack on an
Israeli bus after they allegedly threw stones and a Molotov cocktail at
the vehicle Thursday evening in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras
el-Amoud..."

Israeli bus that went up in flames after being struck by a Molotov cocktail in Ras el-Amoud.
(photo credit:JERUSALEM FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES)

As Rosh Hashanah began in Israel
this week, the most ordinary of events occurred on a road in Jerusalem.
Palestinians rained down rocks on what they thought was a car being
driven by a Jew. In this case, it was a 64-year-old Jew returning home
after a holiday dinner. The result was a fatal crash in which the Jew died.
While fatalities from such incidents are not a daily occurrence,
attacks on Jewish cars and pedestrians with rocks and fire bombs are so
routine, as to be considered not particularly newsworthy even in Israel.
But when Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to this and similar
incidents by saying his government intended to wage a war on those who
hurl such lethal projectiles, you can bet it will be interpreted as
further evidence of Israeli belligerence rather than proof that the
Palestinians don’t want peace. Like the similar provocations on
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount where Muslim harassment of Jewish tourists to
the site have gotten out of control, any Israeli effort to push back
against terrorism is seen as being somehow the fault of the Jews while
Palestinians committing crimes are seen as innocent youths performing
what the New York Times described as a “rite of passage.”
But it’s worth asking those Western observers who sympathize with or
rationalize these attacks on Jews whether they would consider such
attacks on their cars in the U.S. and Europe to be anything but
attempted murder

Referring to the tensions surrounding visits by Jews to the Temple Mount,
Abbas said: “Al-Aksa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet.
We won’t allow them to do so and we will do whatever we can to defend
Jerusalem......Abbas praised Muslim male and female worshipers whose job is to harass
Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount. “Each drop of blood that was
spilled in Jerusalem is pure blood as long as it’s for the sake of
Allah. Every shahid (martyr) will be in heaven and every wounded person
will be rewarded, by Allah’s will.”

Several
Israelis have been injured and many Palestinians arrested over the
Jewish New Year holiday as a result of Palestinian violence on the
Temple Mount and in Jerusalem. The official Palestinian Authority daily
has encouraged Palestinians to continue throwing rocks at Israelis and
to sacrifice themselves to defend and save the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem.

" The PA presents rock throwing as an example of what they term "peaceful
resistance." Recently, PA Chairman Abbas endorsed rock throwing when he
hosted an event for a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who threw rocks at
Israeli soldiers. When a soldier wanted to arrest him, the boy's family
attacked the soldier. At the event, Abbas praised the boy and his
family, and "stressed that
peaceful popular resistance against the occupier is a powerful weapon
in the hands of the Palestinian people." A picture of Abbas hugging the
boy appeared in the official PA daily:

"During the reception forthe
family of the child Muhammad Al-Tamimi, the president praised the
courage of the Al-Tamimi family and the way it faces the tyranny of the
occupation and the attacks of its soldiers... The president stressed
that peaceful popular resistance against the occupier is a powerful
weapon in the hands of the Palestinian people."

The EU’s accidental, immoral boycott of the Golan
The European Parliament voted by a large majority to start labeling goods
that come from “occupied territories” under Israeli control. After
350,000 dead in Syria, the collapse of Iraq, the disintegration of
Libya, a wave of refugees that threatens to drown Europe and a bad deal
with Iran, at last the European Union has found who is really to blame: A
bottle of “Yarden” Chardonnay from a Golan Heights winery.

This decision is not only immoral but also
astonishingly amateur. The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the
State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In
fact, there isn’t even a single Palestinian living there. It is a small
strip of land that fell under the category of “occupied territory”
after it was conquered from Syria during the 1967 war.

Now let’s imagine that we Israelis are so
frightened by the boycott (and we’re not) that we decide to return the
Golan Heights. Who exactly are we supposed to return it to? There are
actually a few options:

The first option is Jabhat al-Nusra, the local
wing of Al-Qaeda on our border. Another option is ISIS which is
fighting for control of the area. A third option is Hezbollah which is
on the Lebanese part of the border, and a fourth option is the murderous
regime of President Assad himself. We can assume that the first thing
Assad will do is enlist into his forces all the Druze men who are
currently living as free and equal people in the Golan Heights. The
women and children will join the millions of refugees who have already
fled his regime.

Before you decide, note who isn’t an option:
The Palestinian Authority. That’s because the Palestinian Authority was
never in the Golan Heights and even if the world asked them to be, they
would have no interest in being there.

So why are products from the Golan Heights
included in the European boycott? (And let’s not obfuscate here, this
isn’t labeling, it is a boycott.)

It’s because the enthusiasm to harm Israel is
so great – and the motives so sinister – that no one even bothered to
check the details buried in some basement in the European Union. They
were told it was about Israel and they felt the righteous fervor which
leads them to attack the only democracy in the Middle East, and in a
totally unconnected place.

This time it wasn’t the concept behind
labeling which revealed the true motives, but the reckless manner in
which it was decided. The fact that the European Union has accidentally
boycotted thousands of Israeli citizens who are in no way related to the
issue is further proof that this has nothing to do with advancing
peace. This is a capitulation by the European Union to Islamists and
radicals who demand the State of Israel be attacked in any way possible,
whether effective or not.

The writer, a former finance minister, is leader of the Yesh Atid party.

" I have known Benjamin Netanyahu for more than 40 years, having first
met him when he was a student in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

When I
read the Israeli criticism of the prime minister, I do not recognize
the Bibi I know (by the way I still call him Mr. Prime Minister when he
is in office).

Viewing him from a distance, and never taking
sides on Israel’s domestic politics, I see a warm, intellectually
curious and deeply principled man, with a good sense of humor and a
never ending quest to protect the Jewish people from external enemies.
Yes, I also see one tough Jew, but his toughness is reflected by the
Israeli metaphor of the Sabra – prickly on the outside, sweet on the
inside..."

"Israel immediately slammed the move, with Foreign Ministry spokesman
Emmanuel Nachshon saying that the move was a discriminatory one “that
had the smell of a boycott.

“Under the cover of a technical move,
this is an attempt to impose a diplomatic solution instead of
encouraging the Palestinians to return to negotiations,” he said.
“Europe acts toward Israel with sanctimonious hypocrisy, while it would
never consider proposing a similar solution to northern Cyprus or
Western Sahara.”

Israel protested against the settlement
labeling move at a high-level strategic dialogue with the EU earlier
this week, saying that the move unfairly singled out Israel, as similar
product labeling action has not been taken in regard to other
territorial conflicts around the world, such as the ones in Cyprus and
Morocco.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said it was
necessary to “call the child by it’s name,” and that “labeling products
is a boycott.”

" As a thick haze shrouded Israel’s buildings and roads for the third day
in a row on Thursday, scientists continued to ponder the equally hazy
meteorological explanation for the dust storm, the strongest and most polluting such event to hit the country in 15 years.

The dusty conditions are the result of sandstorms raging in the Syrian desert.

However,
why and how these sandstorms began at this time of year – and
ultimately blew south to Israel and its neighbors – has puzzled
meteorologists...

...Despite previous predictions that the dusty conditions would fade
gradually by Friday, IMS forecasts on Thursday said that the haze would
likely persist throughout Friday and even possibly remain into
Saturday."

“In my four years, I have seen hypocrisy, I have seen duplicity, and I
have seen a triple standard -- one for democracies, one for
dictatorships, and a special standard designed only for Israel,” Prosor
said. “I thought I had seen everything,” he continued. “But I have to
admit, this time, the Palestinian managed to take cynicism to a whole
new level. The goal of this resolution is a photo op. The Palestinians
want to bring together world dignitaries and the media to gather around
and watch as [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] Abu Mazen
raises a flag. They plan to use the prestige of the UN as a backdrop
for this charade.”

No vote, Prosor said, can turn “empty symbolic gestures into a state.”

Four Israeli
investors were searching for some peace and tranquility - so they bought
an island in the Scandinavian country for only 450,000 euros, and plan
on building an Israeli colony there, for other nature lovers like them.

"There's something very
predictable about Finland. This is a welfare state with an average wage
of 3,500 euros a month and low-level wages for executives. There aren’t a
lot of surprises here. You know that at the end of March - beginning of
April, the geese arrive, just like in the story of Nils Holgersson, six
weeks later the chicks hatch, in September the wagtails come – and they
always do. Based on the weather you know exactly when the cafés would
open along the beach or the lake, a walking distance away from your
house, and could set your clock based on when the ferry from Stockholm
arrives. Real tranquility. Your daily routine is also very clear and
unchanging, so much so that when a Finnish person encounters something
out of the ordinary, he could respond with aggression. Into this entire
equation, Israeli investors are coming, and the Finnish people don't
quite know what to make of that..."

"If you're living in the middle of the woods, you are against
any outsider coming to your familiar surroundings," the mayor explains.
"But I really love Israel, and the investment in the island is the best
compliment I could get as a mayor."

... When we get to the
sleepy town at the edge of Finland, which only comes to life once a year
for an international opera festival, we are met with the mayor, a nice
elderly lady. "I've heard about Israel and about Jews, and I love and
appreciate them a lot," she announces, and then gets down to business:
"We have a luxury hotel, designed like a haunted castle, on a private
beach owned by an elderly lady from Berlin. She heard about you and
she's willing to sell only to Israelis, if you are interested of
course."

On the way to the beach, the mayor tells us that the area is
filled with wild bears, and that there's a good chance to encounter one
while taking out the trash. Bear meat is a delicacy in local
restaurants, she adds, and reveals that "the hunting season begins soon,
and people from all over the world will come here to hunt bears." She
too has a license to hunt bears, in case you were wondering.
The municipal beach is massive, and there are red cabins and three
sauna houses on it. "There's a 100 dunam here that we'd be happy to sell
you," the mayor says while pulling out a berry picking comb – an
instrument that is as strange as its name. It is a giant comb attached
to a bowl, which is used to gather the sweet fruit growing at every
corner. She fills up a whole bucket of berries from the nearest bush..."

"Supporters of the Iranian nuclear deal appear to have achieved a
Congressional victory. But before casting their fateful vote, they need
to hear one more voice — the voice of my Israeli grandchildren. One of
them is a precocious toddler named Ariel, and the other is Romi, an
azure-eyed girl born last January. This is what the Iran nuclear deal
means for them:

Ariel and Romi face 100,000 rockets — more than possessed by all of NATO
— supplied by Iran to Hezbollah. Currently, many of these rockets can
be intercepted by Iron Dome, the Israeli-designed and American-financed
anti-ballistic system. But Iran wants to upgrade Hezbollah’s rockets
into guided missiles capable of eluding Iron Dome and striking our
military bases, electrical grids, and airport. Only the sanctions have
prevented Iran from funding the upgrade. But since the nuclear deal
fails to compel Iran to cease threatening to destroy Israel, the
hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief can help Hezbollah
realize that goal. Before they are old enough to sprint, Ariel and Romi
may well be rushed by their parents into shelters while missiles
paralyze their state..."

“Today, Iran has attained such status that
the superpowers have surrendered to it, because of its majesty, its
steadfastness, its resistance and its unity.

“Despite their great pride, the regime of the
arrogance [the West, led by the US] sat humbly behind the negotiating
table and obeyed the rights of the Iranian nation,” Dehghan went on...

Irans högste ledare Ali Khameneis webbsida:

“Those who leveled sanctions against us yesterday are dying today,
because Iran has become the region’s foremost military power. The
Islamic Republic of Iran has proven that it works diligently to defend
itself. The entire nation unites as a solid fist, standing fast against
the aggressors who lack all reason.”

" Sometimes you have to fight battles you cannot win because fighting – regardless of the outcome – advances a larger cause.

Israel’s
fight against the nuclear deal the major powers, led by US President
Barack Obama concluded with Iran was such a battle."

"So if the fight against the deal was doomed to fail, why did the
Israeli government decide to fight it for all it was worth? And why is
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still fighting it even though there
is no longer any way to stop Obama from enabling Iran to sprint across
the nuclear finish line? By fighting Obama’s nuclear deal, Israel seeks
to advance two larger efforts. First, it uses the battle to expand its
capacity to act without the US to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear
weapons. Second, it is shaping its relations with the US both for the
duration of Obama’s presidency and for the day after he leaves office."

"The Americans weren’t the only ones paying attention to Israel’s fight.
Israel’s Arab neighbors also saw how Netanyahu and Ambassador to the
US Ron Dermer left no stone unturned in their efforts to convince
Democratic lawmakers to oppose it. And the regional implications are
already becoming clear.

As the Saudis’ willingness to stand with
Israel in public to oppose this deal has shown, our neighbors have
been deeply impressed by the diplomatic courage Israel has shown. If
and when Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear installations, our willingness to
openly oppose the administration will weigh in our favor. It will
impact our neighbors’ willingness to cooperate in action aimed at
removing Iran’s nuclear sword from their necks and ours."

“The key question is: will the IAEA be present
during the sample-taking or not?” Heinonen wondered. “It looks to me
that they might be witnessing the sample-taking through some camera
view, or from a distance. If that’s really the case I have a lot of
reservations about the reasonability and credibility of the
arrangements.”

Heinonen — who worked for the IAEA for nearly
three decades and headed the agency’s Department of Safeguards —
explained that taking samples at a site suspected of having hosted
illicit nuclear activity is no simple feat.

Alan Dershowitz:

Alan Dershowitz on Iran Nuclear Deal: ‘I’m Furious With President Obama’ Long-time Democrat, Israel defender and famed law professor Alan
Dershowitz told a synagogue audience on Saturday night that he was
“furious” with President Obama over the Iran nuclear deal. Dershowitz implied he had been betrayed by the president he had formerly championed.He recounted being invited to the Oval Office before Obama’s
reelection in 2012, where the president had committed to being vigilant
on the Iranian nuclear issue. Obama has now crossed many of his own red
lines, said Dershowitz, who backed Obama in two elections.

It has been brought to the attention of the PLO Negotiations Affairs
Department that there is an ongoing attempt by Israeli governmental and
non-governmental organizations to organize visits to the sacred Al-Aqsa
Mosque Compound, with a focus on foreign media. We hereby urge the
foreign press not to accept or participate in tours that are part of
Israel’s campaign to change the historical narrative of Occupied East
Jerusalem, and particularly its religious sites.

...By
participating in these tours, foreign media is legitimizing and
encouraging the daily violations committed by Israeli Occupation Forces
against Palestinians, including incitement, hate speech, the denial of
freedom of worship at Muslim and Christian holy sites, as well as denial
of the presence, identity, and traditions of Palestinian Muslims and
Christians in the occupied Palestinian capital.

The
Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, as with the Old City of Jerusalem as a whole,
is an integral part of the Occupied State of Palestine in accordance
with International law and UN resolutions.

... We
urge the international media not to be indirectly complicit in these
acts by participating in unauthorized tours and incorrect language aimed
at changing the historical narrative of Jerusalem.

“The Islamic Revolution will continue enhancing its preparedness until it overthrows Israel and liberates Palestine,...“We will continue defending not just our own country, but also all the
oppressed people of the world, specially those countries that are
standing on the forefront of confrontation with the Zionists,”

In its report on Gen. Kazzemeini’s speech
Wednesday, Fars recalled that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, in an address to Tehran students last year, called for the
“full annihilation and destruction of the Zionist regime.”

On Tuesday, the commander of IRGC, Gen.
Mohammad Ali Jafari, threatened Israel, saying “its security will not be
preserved” and asserting that the dangers posed to Israel were “growing
greater by the day.”